Peggy Dean, executive director of the Jean Houston Foundation, summarizes our series on Social Artistry following 14 days of immersion with Social Artists from around the globe. Fasten your seatbelts as Peggy shares the results of the Social Artistry Summit, Congress and Leadership Institute. And listen for the vision of the future. This show rocks!

What social changes can one—or two—people make in a large well-established school? Karen Johnson and Woody Howard will delight and inspire you with the ways they’ve engaged Social Artistry at the Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

Today’s guest, Dick Dalton, welcomes students to his class on “Personal and Community Health” as co-creators of the future. Tune in to hear what he teaches to encourage students in the quest to live intentionally rather than mindlessly!

Don’t miss Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. One of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement, Dr. Houston brings profound insights into being the change we seek in the world. 

Social Artist MariElena Granger joins us to share empowering, insightful and inspiring stories of transformation in rural Zambia through Social Artistry training.

Discover how Social Artistry, a vehicle for the important work of humanity’s awakening, is both similar and unique relative to our Unity teachings. Tricia Webster, a social artist who epitomizes successful collaboration, shares the application of Social Artistry to creating community  vision, action and collaboration. 

LoveLight ministries, led by Robin Goff, is raving about 18-year-old Dillon Zavala, who is acting on his intention to heal the world. Supported by Belinda Lightheart, LUT, from his home church of Unity Church of the Hills in Austin, Texas, Dillon is conducting HIV testing, providing outreach, youth leadership and co-creating a camp to make a positive difference in the lives of people in South Africa.

Rev. Kyra Baehr answers the question, "After the dialogue, now what?" If you have interest in interfaith work, tune in to hear the latest from the Arizona InterFaith Movement, one of the leading-edge organizations for changing consciousness through interfaith collaboration.

Rev. Kathy Long, Unity minister and founder of EarthCare in the Northwest Region of our Association, is today’s guest. Her enthusiasm, wisdom and knowledge of ecosystems, biodiversity and the unique role of New Thought teachings in the healing of our planet bring hope. Today we focus on water, concluding the show with a “Water Blessing.”

Revs. Deborah and Kelly, the voices for A World That Works, will explore a potpourri of topics that highlight five seasons. A time of reflection and acknowledgement, this is Kelly’s last episode as co-host. 

Spiritual Social Action holds the heady excitement and heartfelt promise of A World That Works. It’s wise to “look before you leap” rather than dive straight into your first SSA project. A brief survey of the territory will help you navigate your project and to avoid the pitfalls and so you can fulfill the promises with joy, ease and grace.

Today’s guest is singer-songwriter Karl Anthony, an artist who doesn’t take the traditional entertainment industry path. Instead, his life-enriching concerts and social action touring are heart-centered journeys for change. Karl’s service-directed music career began with leading the very first Russian/American Youth Summit in Moscow. A global traveler, he shares his music in venues as diverse as 20,000-seat concert arenas to homeless shelters. He’s received the Gandhi/King Season for Nonviolence Peace Hero Award several times for his humanitarian efforts. Find out more at www.karlanthony.com. Today we’ll discover how Karl came to be a voice for change and the exciting places his music is going. We’ll discuss lyrics that are a bit edgy, challenging us to move deeper into our hearts and to act from a conscious place of oneness to create a world that works for all.

On this week's episode Kelly and Deborah come together in their virtual coffee shop to talk about the situation in Haiti, as well as the lessons we have learned from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004. What can we do as individuals and spiritual communities to respond to the immediate needs of Haiti as well as support the long-term rebuilding? Join us as come together again to co-create a world that works for all.

Deborah Olive, minister of Unity Church of Olympia, co-chair of the Spiritual Social Action Ministry Team, and co-host of A World That Works has returned from the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions held in Melbourne, Australia. This year’s theme is “Making a Difference: Hearing Each Other, Healing the Earth.” More than 6,000 people attended, representing faith traditions, cultures and nations from around the world. New Thought was represented by over 200 delegates (from all 10 threads within our movement) and presented five programs. Our creation and sponsorship of the Season for Nonviolence, under the umbrella of the Association for Global New Thought, clearly demonstrates our involvement and contribution to Spiritual Social Action. This is an introduction and overview of an event with over 1,000 presenters and 650 programs.

This week Kelly talks with Cynthia Phillips, founder of the Solet Initiative of Phoenix, Ariz., a not-for-profit organization devoted to supporting the growth of vibrant sustainable communities and business around the world (www.solet.org). Through network and organizational development, educational and cultural events, and media productions; the Solet Initiative serves as a catalyst for building awareness of environmental and social issues while providing the avenues for action and engagement, to co-create a world that works for all.

Dr. Barbara Fields, co-founder and executive director of the Association for Global New Thought, will share insights into the key role of the Peace Generation (25 to 35 year olds) in the creation of A World That Works for All. 

Our Season for Nonviolence focus this week is on children and family involvement. We discuss a number of tools made available through the Association for Global New Thought. We start with “64 Ways in 64 Days to Bring Peace to the Family.” Kelly shares favorite children’s books and we mention curricula for peace and nonviolence made available to the schools. During the 10th Anniversary Year of SNV, a new program, Peaceport, was created for youth. More resources are available on our blog—or go to www.agnt.org and click on Season for Nonviolence.

Reinventing Our World: Three Transformative Social Innovations to Change the Game

Rev. Kelly Isola, co-chair of the Spiritual Social Action Ministry Team, certified BePeace Trainer and co-host of A World That Works has just returned

Peace is breaking out in Costa Rica as over 40 nations attend the fourth Global summit. And peace is breaking out through Unity's second annual 11 Days of Global Unity project.

Today' guest is Rita Marie Johnson, founder of the Rasur Foundation in Costa Rica. She went to Costa Rica in 1993 to help strengthen its national model of peace. As a result, a new "peace package" is now being implemented: a Ministry for Peace that collaborates with a national Academy for Peace, which trains peace teachers in the practice of BePeace. Listen this week to hear how this new model is inspiring hope around the world as people realize that similar models could be replicated in their countries.

Kelly and Deborah return for their metaphysical cup of coffee to discuss ideas inspired by Paul Hawken’s book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. We travel from the Big Bang to Cultural Creatives to the Largest Movement in the World: millions of grassroots organizations seeking to make the world a better place.

Charley’s lyrics open the heart and create a sense of universal oneness that is such a vital part of spiritual social action. He has traveled the world and has many stories of healing and service. Tune in for a warm, delightful and inspiring conversation with Charley!

Greg Tamblyn, songwriter, author, humorist and speaker joins Revs. Kelly and Deborah. Greg’s lyrics are often funny so we discuss not only the role music can play in our spiritual awakening, but the extra boost that comes from laughter. From spiritual awakening, to a greater capacity to love, to a passion to serve as exemplified in the Bali orphanage project, we “connect the dots” to show how Greg’s music inspires spiritual social action.

There’s a movement emerging on Planet Earth, new ways of living that will take us beyond the crises of our age into a world that works for all. The work of the Pachamama Alliance is helping to build the movement of awake, committed, engaged people; it is an invitation they extend to everyone through the Awakening the Dreamer—Changing the Dream Symposium. Listen as our special guest this week, Mark DuBois, describes how anyone can participate in this symposium and offer it in their own community in order to discover who we can be and what we can do at this point in history—and have fun doing it.

This week Deborah and Kelly join together over a cup of coffee to talk about a powerful book, The Engaged Spiritual Life by Donald Rothberg, who has committed his life to social change and to awakening our deeper spiritual nature. Kelly and Deborah will discuss the core of the book—ten spiritual principles for living an engaged spiritual life. The conversation highlights some basic spiritual teachings with social context and application to provide a clear guide to connecting inner and outer transformation which is spiritual social action.

In 2004 John McNeil and Christine Elliot initiated the California Department of Peace campaign at their Unity church, now called The Unity Center, with the blessing and support of their founding minister Reverend Wendy Craig-Purcell. They join A World That Works to share their powerful story of how they became involved in this spiritual social action. They have educated and inspired thousands with knowledge, skill and enthusiasm to become powerful, SPIRITUAL, world-citizen activists.

The current environmental situation can be an invitation for all of us to practice our spiritual principles by actively recognizing the face of God in each expression of creation. Guests Ron Habin and Michael McCord will inspire you with tools, projects, and passion for the greening of our earth.

Join Deborah and Kelly with special guests as we visit the grassroots projects that have made a difference for peace and nonviolence in their communities.